Combined Data Privacy release notes for upgrades from Xanadu to Yokohama

  • Release version: Yokohama
  • Updated July 20, 2026
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    Summary of Combined Data Privacy release notes for upgrades from Xanadu to Yokohama

    This consolidated release notes document assists ServiceNow customers in preparing for upgrades of Data Privacy from the Xanadu release family to Yokohama. It summarizes new features, changes, licensing updates, activation instructions, and other relevant information to ensure a smooth transition and to help you leverage the latest Data Privacy capabilities effectively.

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    Key Features

    • Licensing Changes: Both Xanadu and Yokohama allow installation of Data Discovery, Data Discovery APIs, Data Anonymization, and Data Privacy APIs without entitlement, but running jobs requires the appropriate entitlement.
    • Child Job Execution (Xanadu): Enables running parallel child jobs to optimize job execution duration.
    • Column Level Encryption (Xanadu): Security admins can view encryption status of discovery fields and determine if they can be encrypted.
    • AI/ML Based Data Discovery for Real-Time Anonymization (Yokohama): Uses Named Entity Recognition (NER) models to discover sensitive data without fixed patterns (such as names, addresses, organizations) and supports real-time anonymization.
    • Data Privacy Integration with Now Assist (Yokohama): Enables sanitization of sensitive data entered in Now Assist prompts to prevent data leakage while maintaining response quality.
    • Sensitive Data Discovery from Attachments (Yokohama): Enhances Data Discovery jobs to identify and report sensitive data contained within attachments.

    Changes

    • Journal Fields Support (Xanadu): Data Discovery and Data Anonymization now support journal fields via Workspace UI.
    • Increased Data Pattern Regular Expression Length (Xanadu): The regex length limit for data patterns has been increased to 1000 characters, allowing more complex pattern definitions.
    • New Base System Data Patterns (Xanadu): Additional default data patterns have been introduced to improve discovery accuracy.
    • Security Center Dependency Indicators (Xanadu): New indicators help identify missing Security Center dependencies.
    • No changes in Yokohama: No updates or changes were made in this release for existing features.

    Activation and Requirements

    • Activation: Yokohama requires activation of the Data Privacy Plugin (sndpstoreapp) to enable Data Privacy features.
    • No additional requirements, browser specifications, accessibility, or localization changes were introduced between Xanadu and Yokohama.

    Highlighted Enhancements

    • Improved UI: Next Experience dashboards feature an improved Data Privacy and Data Discovery user interface.
    • Real-Time Anonymization Policies: Discover and anonymize sensitive data as it is entered.
    • Expanded Support for Journal Fields: Enables discovery and anonymization of journal fields with larger regex support.
    • Now Assist Integration (Yokohama): Discover and sanitize sensitive data in Now Assist prompts and data sent to models without impacting user responses.
    • Attachment Data Discovery (Yokohama): Enhanced jobs to detect sensitive data within attachments.

    Consolidated page of all release notes for Data Privacy from Xanadu to Yokohama.

    How to use this page

    To help you prepare for your upgrade, we have combined the cross-family Data Privacy release notes onto one page. Read this summary of the new features, changes, and updated information for your product from Xanadu to Yokohama.

    Tip:
    If there were no updates for a release notes section in a certain family release, we included a short note for your reference. For example, if a product did not have any updates in Tokyo, the row says "No updates for this release."

    Important information for upgrading Data Privacy to Yokohama

    Before you upgrade to Yokohama, review these pre- and post-upgrade tasks and complete the tasks as needed.

    Release Release notes

    Xanadu

    Licensing changes enable you to install Data Discovery, Data Discovery APIs, Data Anonymization, and Data Privacy APIs without an entitlement, but you must have an entitlement to run a job.

    Yokohama

    Licensing changes enable you to install Data Discovery, Data Discovery APIs, Data Anonymization, and Data Privacy APIs without an entitlement, but you must have an entitlement to run a job.

    New features

    Between your current release family and Yokohama, new features were introduced for Data Privacy.

    Release Release notes

    Xanadu
    Child job execution
    Run child parallel jobs to optimize the duration of your job executions.
    Encrypt with column level encryption (CLE)
    As a security admin, view whether the discovery field is encrypted or can be encrypted.

    Yokohama
    AL/ML Based Data Discovery for Real Time Anonymization
    Use AI/ML data discovery using Named Entity Recognition (NER) models to discover sensitive data that does not follow a pattern like name, address, organizations, and more; and run real-time anonymization.
    Configuring Data Privacy for Now Assist
    Sanitize sensitive data entered in Now Assist prompts to prevent data leakage without impacting the response.
    Discover sensitive data from attachments.
    Discover and report on sensitive data from attachments.

    Changes

    Between your current release family and Yokohama, some changes were made to existing Data Privacy features.

    Release Release notes

    Xanadu
    Discover and anonymize journal fields
    Journal fields are now supported for Data Discovery and Data Anonymization with Workspace UI.
    Data pattern regular expression length increased
    The data pattern regular expression length limit is increased to 1000 characters.
    New base system data patterns
    New base system data patterns are supported. See Default data patterns for more information.
    Indicators for Security Center dependencies
    Indicators for missing Security Center dependencies have been added.

    Yokohama

    		 No updates for this release.

    Removed

    Between your current release family and Yokohama, some Data Privacy features or functionality were removed.

    Release Release notes

    Xanadu

    		 No updates for this release.

    Yokohama

    		 No updates for this release.

    Deprecations

    Between your current release family and Yokohama, some Data Privacy features or functionality were deprecated.

    Release Release notes

    Xanadu

    		 No updates for this release.

    Yokohama

    		 No updates for this release.

    Activation information

    Review information on how to activate Data Privacy.

    Release Release notes

    Xanadu

    		 No updates for this release.

    Yokohama

    Data Privacy is available with activation of the Data Privacy Plugin (sn_dp_store_app). For details, see Activate data privacy.

    Additional requirements

    If any additional requirements were introduced or changed for Data Privacy we have noted them here.

    Release Release notes

    Xanadu

    		 No updates for this release.

    Yokohama

    		 No updates for this release.

    Browser requirements

    If any specific browser requirements were introduced or changed for Data Privacy we have noted them here.

    Release Release notes

    Xanadu

    		 No updates for this release.

    Yokohama

    		 No updates for this release.

    Accessibility information

    Review details on accessibility information for Data Privacy, such as specific requirements or compliance levels.

    Release Release notes

    Xanadu

    		 No updates for this release.

    Yokohama

    		 No updates for this release.

    Localization information

    If there are specific localization considerations for Data Privacy we have noted them here.

    Release Release notes

    Xanadu

    		 No updates for this release.

    Yokohama

    		 No updates for this release.

    Highlight information

    If there are specific highlight considerations for Data Privacy we have noted them here.

    Release Release notes

    Xanadu
    • Navigate an improved Data Privacy and Data Discovery UI in Next Experience dashboards.
    • Discover and anonymize sensitive data as it's entered with the real-time anonymization policy.
    • Anonymize and discover journal fields with expanded support and an increased data pattern regular expression limit of up to 1000 characters.

    See Platform Privacy for more information.

    Yokohama
    • Leverage Data Privacy in Now Assist to discover sensitive data in Now Assist prompts and data send to models.
    • Sanitize sensitive data from Now Assist prompts without impacting response.
    • Discover sensitive data from attachments using enhanced Data Discovery jobs.

    See Platform Privacy for more information.